Quest Courses – Fall 2023 / Old Courses / FOOD: BEYOND JUST CALORIES
Coordinators: Andrea Irvine, David Bartash, Marion Schultheis
We all eat it. But how we grow it, process it, cook it, or consume it raw are significant definers of who we are as a society.
Show us a country and how it treats the idea of eating, and we can start to understand what makes it unique. So come with us on a journey to explore this complicated, but tasty subject.
B WEEK / THURSDAY / 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Food: Beyond Just Calories, Spring 2023 | ||
Date | Presenter | Title |
Feb 16 | Andrea Irvine | History of the Jewish Deli |
Mar 02 | Paul Adler | History of French Cooking |
Mar 16 | Tamara Weinberg, Mark Cardillo | Chocolate and Coffee |
Mar 30 | David Bartash | Feeding the Millions |
Apr 20 | Marion Schultheis | Cheese |
May 04 | Andrew Epstein | Future Food Past |
May 18 | Arlene Hajinlian, Andrea Irvine | Armenian Food/Culture |
Other Classes:
- THEATER TALKBACK
- INVISIBLE MAN BY RALPH ELLISON
- ELIZABETH GASKELL
- WEEK IN PARIS
- CREATIVE WORKSHOP
- EMILY DICKINSON CIRCLE
- SYMPOSIUM
- RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
- AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
- HUCKLEBERRY FINN
- AGING
- FASCINATING ISLANDS
- BLACK WOMEN’S VOICES
- THE NOBEL PRIZES
- READING EDITH WHARTON
- WOMEN IN GREEK DRAMA
- THE NEAR EAST
- HISTORY OF GERMANY
- A PASSAGE TO INDIA
- INDIE FILMS
- INDIE FILMS
- SLAVERY’S ROLE IN U.S. CAPITALISTIST DEVELOPMENT
- RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
- READING THE RABBIS
- RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- MYTHOLOGY
- LITERARY HEROINES
- HOWARDS END
- HOUSE OF MIRTH
- FABULOUS FIFTIES
- READING BLACK LIVES
- BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
- MOZART’S WOMEN
- ANTISEMITISM: PAST, PRESENT, FACTS, MYTHS
- AFRICAN CONTINENT
- PRESENTER’S SHOWCASE
- INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
- ACTING CLASS
- LAW & ORDER
- POINT OF VIEW
- MODERN OPERA
- MOVERS & SHAKERS
- SOCRATES AND THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY
- GREAT CONVERSATIONS
- ORAL INTERPRETATION OF POETRY